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Issue 1, 2025
Transaction Banking: Bankable Insights
In this edition of Transaction Banking Bankable Insights, we examine the impact of US-led tariffs on global trade; the rise of embedded finance; and explore data-driven treasury strategies which will be fuelled by ISO 20022.
Case studies and an interview with a Group Treasurer provide real-world examples and applications to consider as you navigate the evolving macroeconomic, regulatory and technological landscape.
The Custodian Edition
March 2025
Regulatory harmonisation and digital automation are streamlining processes, reducing bottlenecks, and aligning settlement cycles, breaking down market barriers along the way. This edition of The Custodian explores some of the new opportunities arising from these initiatives.
Past editions
June 2024
Transforming Emerging Markets through digitisation and collaboration
Articles:
- Custodians refine their data strategies
- Gaining a foothold in India
- Three reasons why digital assets deserve an independent custodian
- Commit, collaborate, consolidate: The way forward for Africa’s financial markets
- Tech-powered custodian services to support fast-growing UAE’s fund industry
January 2024
Engines of growth – how technology and regulation are reshaping Emerging Markets
Articles:
- Emerging and Frontier Markets: Market reforms enabling frictionless investor access
- Custody 2.0 – driving success through a data-centric strategy
- Swap Connect – Opening new doors, connecting you to new opportunities
- Realising potential, together: The future of Singapore’s fund ecosystem
- How will technology shape the future of asset servicing?
2024
Tomorrow’s Banking
Watch what our leaders have to say about what these changes mean for financial institutions and their clients, the significance of Sibos being held in China, and why connecting people, commerce, markets and information is more important than ever.
2024
Connecting the future of finance
Contents:
- Our Sibos 2024 at a glance
- Why Sibos in China
- Balancing risk and reward: Deploying AI in the fight against financial crime
- Real-world asset tokenisation: How FIs can propel this USD30 trillion opportunity
- Custodians refine their data strategies
- Money moves without borders. Why can’t our payments data do the same?
2023
Collaborative finance in a fragmented world
Contents:
- Highlights from Sibos 2023
- Banking on collaboration: the way forward for tomorrow’s economy
- How can financial institutions lead in the CBDC era?
- The disruptive potential of generative AI
- Securing the future: the crucial link between crypto custody and counterparty risk
- Custody 2.0 – driving success through a data-centric strategy
2022
Perspectives on Tomorrow’s Banking
Contents:
- Tomorrow’s banking: Creating opportunities for sustainable growth
- How banks can channel finance for a just transition everywhere
- Accelerating sustainability in emerging markets
- Evolving banking for the digital economy
- Innovating for clients
- Solving for real-world challenges through banking innovation
- Moving the dial on financial crime
Transaction Banking: Bankable Insights
Issue 3, 2024
Contents:
- Scaling up in high-growth trade corridors
- A tale of two cities: The growth of regional treasury centres
- Partnership for scaling the adoption of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Why digital supply chain finance could be a game changer
- One-stop cloud-based solution supports OANDA’s ambitions to scale and grow effectively
- Adopting a growth mindset
Transaction Banking: Bankable Insights
Issue 2, 2024
Contents:
- Corporate treasury’s new imperatives for 2024: Resilience, reinvention and radical transformation
- How is AI revolutionising supply chain financing?
- Why is tokenisation of trade finance transformative for investors?
- Open banking marketplaces are the app stores for APIs
- Collaborating on an industry-first complimentary insurance programme for motorcycle riders
- MNCs find ways to free trapped cash in their African operations
- A sustainable trade ecosystem is ASEAN’s best route to building resilience
- Record-breaking 120 wins at The Asset Treasurise Awards 2024
Transaction Banking: Bankable Insights
Issue 1, 2024
Contents:
- Global focus – Economic outlook 2004: A soft landing, with risks
- Five reasons for optimism in trade in 2024
- Taking advantage of tokenisation: A corporate roadmap for 2024
- What practical applications of blockchain can treasurers monetise for cross-border payments?
- How evolving regulations are transforming cross-border treasury operations
- How new disclosure requirements can strengthen the supply chain finance market
- B2B marketplace opportunity is ripe for corporates
Listen to our podcasts
Explore some of our latest podcast episodes, where we cover key topics and challenges facing the global economy.
Macro Freestyle: Trade wars, currencies and central banks
Eric Robertsen, Global Head of Research and Chief Strategist and Madhur Jha, Head of Thematic Research, examine the outlook for the US dollar, inflation, global trade flows, EM central bank policy and EM FX amid the US-led global trade war.
Carbon Markets: navigating complexity, delivering opportunity
What are carbon markets and why do they matter? What are the differences between mandatory and voluntary carbon markets, and how can organisation engage in opportunities across each?
Global Outlook 2025 Podcast – Reverberations
Eric Robertsen Global Head of Research and Chief Strategist, and Kaushik Rudra, Global Head of Fixed Income Research and Head of Asia Research, examine the implications of the US presidential transition for global growth, the USD and EM assets.
2025 Financial Markets Surprises Podcast
In this podcast, Standard Chartered’s Global Head of Research, Eric Robertsen, shares his insights on unexpected scenarios in 2025 that could fly against consensus and catch markets and the global economy off guard.
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The Asset Triple A Treasurise Awards 2025
127 accolades affirm clients' choice of Standard Chartered's transaction banking globally
Championing women empowerment in the Middle East
The UAE has made significant progress on the gender diversity agenda, especially within the banking industry.
Defying stereotypes in a the banking industry
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